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[Serpentbane]

I minor "issue" for sure, but when you do changes to your mech and save, the image in the mech selector tool will update reflecting your mech collors and loadout. A cool feature, only the new images are a lot brighter than the old. A little too bright actually, making the images look washed out. My white MadCat is just the collor white with close to no details...

[mark v92]

Serpentbane, on 04 August 2015 - 10:55 AM, said:

I minor "issue" for sure, but when you do changes to your mech and save, the image in the mech selector tool will update reflecting your mech collors and loadout. A cool feature, only the new images are a lot brighter than the old. A little too bright actually, making the images look washed out. My white MadCat is just the collor white with close to no details...

Make sure your brightness and gamma is normal (0.5) when editing camo. After that you can turn in up again.

[BigJim]

Yeah, way too bright for me too - you can't actually see the camo being displayed at all - I guessed right away it was a gamma issue, but then again this game pretty much requires a high gamma setting, and it's a right ballache having to remember to knock down your gamma, then edit, then go back & re-edit...

Should be independent of gamma, or in-game visual quality settings, etc...

Am I going to see better quality portrait images if I bump my settings up to highest quality first?
Then do I have to remember all my custom settings again when I re-enter gameplay?

Bit of a fumble on this otherwise great feature by PGI.

Edited by BigJim, 04 August 2015 - 11:57 AM.

[Gamuray]

I agree that it is a bit weird for your personal gamma settings to affect the portrait.. not like it's a screenshot right? At least I hope that's not how they worked it.

[mark v92]

Gamuray, on 04 August 2015 - 11:53 AM, said:

I agree that it is a bit weird for your personal gamma settings to affect the portrait.. not like it's a screenshot right? At least I hope that's not how they worked it.

looks like it works that way. screenshot the mech with high brightness -> thumbnail now has double brightness

[BigJim]

Gamuray, on 04 August 2015 - 11:53 AM, said:

. not like it's a screenshot right? At least I hope that's not how they worked it.

No it's not - I tried by rotating my mech backwards before saving the "image", and the mech still had the regular orientation in the portrait..

[mark v92]

BigJim, on 04 August 2015 - 11:56 AM, said:

No it's not - I tried by rotating my mech backwards before saving the "image", and the mech still had the regular orientation in the portrait..

They might have thought about the rotation and made it fixed for the split second the screenshot happens. (as thats obvious the first thing they would think about. They might however overlooked the brightness settings

Edited by mark v92, 04 August 2015 - 12:12 PM.

[Jin Ma]

Since the new system just takes a screenshot, if you got ur gamma and brightness up, the new pictures are going to be brighter than the preset images they took of the default loadout mechs

[mark v92]

You can clearly see the differencess here.

The overly bright mechs are camo saved on high brightness/gamma settings.
The warhawk, zeus, stalkers and victors are saved on 0.5 brightness/gamma settings.
The trails are the standard mwo thumbnail.

[Tennex]

Maybe the system needs to normalize gamma/brightness before taking the screenshot

[Luscious Dan]

Tennex, on 04 August 2015 - 01:11 PM, said:

Maybe the system needs to normalize gamma/brightness before taking the screenshot

That would be my suggestion.

[Tennex]

mark v92, on 04 August 2015 - 12:53 PM, said:

You can clearly see the differencess here.

The overly bright mechs are camo saved on high brightness/gamma settings.
The warhawk, zeus, stalkers and victors are saved on 0.5 brightness/gamma settings.
The trails are the standard mwo thumbnail.

Its funny because somehow it actually multiplies the brightness.

The brightness on the default pictures matches that of your rendered mechbay on the right. But the new ones are significantly brighter than your actual mechbay

[Vervuel]

Huzzah! We can adjust gamma and brightness again! they took it away because people were using maxed out levels instead of heat or thermal vision on river city night, since heat/thermal are crap. So just set them back to 50% in the Video menu, fixed.

[gloowa]

rofl. all these people using gamma to have nightvision without nightvision. good game, guys, good game. keep on being classy.

[mark v92]

gloowa, on 04 August 2015 - 03:49 PM, said:

rofl. all these people using gamma to have nightvision without nightvision. good game, guys, good game. keep on being classy.

hey hey. I have to. I had to use night vision on vitric forge, mining collective and terra therma to see something. Thats how dark it was for me

Edited by mark v92, 04 August 2015 - 04:00 PM.

[Brian Windover]

Thank you for reporting the issue. The issue has been fixed.

[Kali Rinpoche]

The brightness is throwing of RGB for camo colors also.

[mark v92]

Brian Windover, on 04 August 2015 - 06:19 PM, said:

Thank you for reporting the issue. The issue has been fixed.

Fix will come in the next patch?